He'd been missing the shows since March 10 because of failures in schedule adjustment, and the same reason was given for his missing the final show of 'EXO'rDIUM'. This means he'll be missing Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, the North America shows, and now the Seoul finale to top it off.

I wish AKP would elaborate more on why he can't promote with exo. As a chinese member of a korean boy group in the middle of THAAD, it puts him in a tough position. If he's active as an exo member he will be bullied by his (very large) chinese fanbase because of politics and it so sad to see that :(

Honestly, that is a very poor excuse. All the other Chinese members of kpop groups are still very much active in Korea despite what is going on between China and Korea (and it clearly isn't a SM thing as the Chinese NCT members are also active). The relationship between those two countries has never been good. If Lay truly cared about EXO, his contract with SM and creating music with his EXO members for EXO-L, he wouldn't let politics influence his life. For a long time I have supported Lay for never leaving the group and staying behind as the only Chinese member, but it is pretty clear where this is headed to and that is a solo career in China

Sigh, I know he has a lot of work in China, which makes sense considering his growing popularity, but i really hope they work out his scheduling conflicts a lot better. Like dedicating half a year to be with EXO and half a year to be in China for solo promotions. Even if EXO don't do much in that half a year, hey at least he gets a break. But realistically, I know it's just going to get harder to balance this with the whole China-Korea problems. I believe he doesn't want to leave EXO but soon, when he's barely even performing with them, what's the point.

It's comments like this that give ARMY's a bad name which seriously we don't need or want we should support other groups. I'm a Army but I'm also a EXO-l , a shawol and I support many other bands and I'm proud of it.

Lay is already infamous for missing out a ton of EXO concerts but so far he's always. ALWAYS been able to make time to make a special guest appearance at the Seoul concert, so this is what you would call "beaking news" for him